Review Blitz: Penalty Play (Boston Rebels #5) by Julia Connors

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🌴 Vacation Fling
🏒 Stepsiblings
🌴 Opposites Attract
🏒 Workplace Romance
🌴 Agent’s Daughter

We were never meant to see each other again. It was a one-night, no-names fling in Bermuda . . . until the next day when I watch her walk down the aisle at our parents’ wedding and discover she’s now my stepsister.

We say it won’t happen again, but we give in to the temptation of “just one more time” . . . twice. We tell ourselves there’s no harm in it. Given my stepdad’s and her mom’s rocky marital histories, it’s unlikely we’ll ever see each other again.

Except, a few days later, I walk into the Boston Rebels’ offices to assure management that I’ll focus on nothing but hockey after I missed last season thanks to an injury. Instead, I find myself face-to-face with my stepsister, Morgan, who now works for the team.

At first, we pretend we’ve never met and try to steer clear of each other. But it’s impossible. Her friends are tangled up with my teammates. Her dad is my agent. She’s everywhere: at the rink, out with our friends, and in my head.

I have every reason not to pursue her. I tell myself I’ll stay away. And yet, I can’t get enough of her.

So we make a deal: a secret friends-with-benefits arrangement—no feelings, no commitment.

The more I truly get to know her, though, the more I can’t imagine my life without her. But forever is the one thing I promised myself I’d never give anyone again.

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Penalty Play is book 5 in the Boston Rebel series, which features interconnected standalones about the players on a fictional professional hockey team.

Tropes:
* stepsiblings
* vacation fling
* agent’s daughter
* opposites attract
* workplace romance
* secret relationship

MY REVIEW

Morgan's in Bermuda for her mother's latest wedding, when she meets a gorgeous stranger and spends the hottest night with him. Neither is looking for more, and they know they'll never see each other again...until they do - at the wedding of their parents! Not only are they stepsiblings, but as they find out - she's his agent's daughter. Now they have to figure out how to deal with their still present chemistry that they cannot do anything about.

I normally avoid stepbrother stories like the plague, but in Penalty Play, it's not much of an issue. The two aren't technically steps, and even though they kind of are, there are many more important things in their story to deal with - his aversion to letting himself be vulnerable, her awful mother and the way she's affected Morgan's poor heart. But thankfully both of them do more than a little growth, and they finally allow themselves to be with each other. I love these two, love the Boston Rebels, and am sad that this series is ending. But what a way to conclude - with a wonderful couple who have delicious chemistry and tons of heart.